1. iso_8859-6.7.man

Manpage of ISO_8859-6

ISO_8859-6

NAME

iso_8859-6 - ISO 8859-6 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal

DESCRIPTION

The ISO 8859 standard includes several 8-bit extensions to the ASCII
character set (also known as ISO 646-IRV).
ISO 8859-6 encodes the characters used in the Arabic language.

ISO 8859 Alphabets

The full set of ISO 8859 alphabets includes:

ISO 8859-1

West European languages (Latin-1)

ISO 8859-2

Central and East European languages (Latin-2)

ISO 8859-3

Southeast European and miscellaneous languages (Latin-3)

ISO 8859-4

Scandinavian/Baltic languages (Latin-4)

ISO 8859-5

Latin/Cyrillic

ISO 8859-6

Latin/Arabic

ISO 8859-7

Latin/Greek

ISO 8859-8

Latin/Hebrew

ISO 8859-9

Latin-1 modification for Turkish (Latin-5)

ISO 8859-10

Lappish/Nordic/Eskimo languages (Latin-6)

ISO 8859-11

Latin/Thai

ISO 8859-13

Baltic Rim languages (Latin-7)

ISO 8859-14

Celtic (Latin-8)

ISO 8859-15

West European languages (Latin-9)

ISO 8859-16

Romanian (Latin-10)

ISO 8859-6 Characters

The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859-6, which
are printable and unlisted in the
ascii(7)
manual page.
The fourth column will only show the proper glyphs
in an environment configured for ISO 8859-6.

Oct

Dec

Hex

Char

Description

240

160

A0

NO-BREAK SPACE

244

164

A4

¤

CURRENCY SIGN

254

172

AC

¬

ARABIC COMMA

255

173

AD

­

SOFT HYPHEN

273

187

BB

»

ARABIC SEMICOLON

277

191

BF

¿

ARABIC QUESTION MARK

301

193

C1

Á

ARABIC LETTER HAMZA

302

194

C2

Â

ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE

303

195

C3

Ã

ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE

304

196

C4

Ä

ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE

305

197

C5

Å

ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW

306

198

C6

Æ

ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE

307

199

C7

Ç

ARABIC LETTER ALEF

310

200

C8

È

ARABIC LETTER BEH

311

201

C9

É

ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA

312

202

CA

Ê

ARABIC LETTER TEH

313

203

CB

Ë

ARABIC LETTER THEH

314

204

CC

Ì

ARABIC LETTER JEEM

315

205

CD

Í

ARABIC LETTER HAH

316

206

CE

Î

ARABIC LETTER KHAH

317

207

CF

Ï

ARABIC LETTER DAL

320

208

D0

Ð

ARABIC LETTER THAL

321

209

D1

Ñ

ARABIC LETTER REH

322

210

D2

Ò

ARABIC LETTER ZAIN

323

211

D3

Ó

ARABIC LETTER SEEN

324

212

D4

Ô

ARABIC LETTER SHEEN

325

213

D5

Õ

ARABIC LETTER SAD

326

214

D6

Ö

ARABIC LETTER DAD

327

215

D7

×

ARABIC LETTER TAH

330

216

D8

Ø

ARABIC LETTER ZAH

331

217

D9

Ù

ARABIC LETTER AIN

332

218

DA

Ú

ARABIC LETTER GHAIN

340

224

E0

à

ARABIC TATWEEL

341

225

E1

á

ARABIC LETTER FEH

342

226

E2

â

ARABIC LETTER QAF

343

227

E3

ã

ARABIC LETTER KAF

344

228

E4

ä

ARABIC LETTER LAM

345

229

E5

å

ARABIC LETTER MEEM

346

230

E6

æ

ARABIC LETTER NOON

347

231

E7

ç

ARABIC LETTER HEH

350

232

E8

è

ARABIC LETTER WAW

351

233

E9

é

ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA

352

234

EA

ê

ARABIC LETTER YEH

353

235

EB

ë

ARABIC FATHATAN

354

236

EC

ì

ARABIC DAMMATAN

355

237

ED

í

ARABIC KASRATAN

356

238

EE

î

ARABIC FATHA

357

239

EF

ï

ARABIC DAMMA

360

240

F0

ð

ARABIC KASRA

361

241

F1

ñ

ARABIC SHADDA

362

242

F2

ò

ARABIC SUKUN

NOTES

ISO 8859-6 lacks the glyphs required for many related languages,
such as Urdu and Persian (Farsi).